Then why advertise it as a scaling solution, if scaling itself is a bad thing, due to not being instrumental to fee market developing?
Shouldn't they come up with some block-bloating code, to compensate for the nasty scaling side effect?
What you are attacking are the irrationalities of those who attack core devs, not the official position of core devs.
Core has a scaling roadmap to make bitcoin scale far beyond what is capable with block increases. Who told you that they consider scaling a bad thing or that a fee market is their first priority?
I'm not talking to Core devs now, I'm talking to
you -- a Core supporter who claims that blocksize shouldn't be increased, because fees market.
If you're going to argue that more tx per solved block is not merely unnecessary but detrimental, because fees market, please be consistent and criticize Core for planning to raise the block size limit.
All I'm asking of you is to stop contradicting yourself, thereby failing at the most basic, the logical, level.
With fees at 0.00$ to 0.05$, being ~1% of the block reward, there is no meaningful fee market to discuss about.
Then don't.
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Because the issues here are not technical. They have the facade of technical disagreements but at their root, they are a way to undermine confidence and promote a governance coup.
If you feel the issues aren't technical, no point discussing technical issues, is there? Let's don our tinfoil hats and get back to what we do best: talking about the world conspiring to get us

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>Miners could be mining empty blocks and it wouldn't affect their pocket negatively. That's how insignificant it is.
Oddly enough, they aren't mining mostly empty blocks now.
Why do you suppose that is?
How would segwit encourage them to mine full blocks?
How would 2MB blocksize limit discourage them from mining full blocks?
Again, what point are you trying to make/defend by introducing the fees market & the fact that miners can mine empty blocks?